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From The Philadelphia Inquirer

Police have arrested two people accused of robbing a South Street jewelry store this weekend, then leaving behind their 4-year-old son in their bid to escape.

John Benson, 47, and Sheakia Stubbs, 31, were arrested this morning after midnight at the Hub Motel at 7605 Roosevelt Boulevard.

Police said the couple entered the Platinum Ice and Jewelry Store at 621 South Street Saturday afternoon with their 4-year-old son in tow. They asked to look at ladies’ rings.

Capt. Laurence Nodiff, commander of South Detectives, said taking the boy made the couple appear like legitimate shoppers.

“I think it’s unbelievable that you’d take a child with you to commit a crime,” he said.

While shopping, the couple created a diversion and Benson grabbed a tray of 15 rings, worth $50,000, from behind the counter, police said.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/odoggz/ odoggz

    that dude looks like DMX!!! This is a shame, and stupid too. I mean I know they didn’t think of this, because this one never came up, specifically, on any of the CSI or NCIS shows, but uhmm… THE COPS CAN FIND YOU IF YOU LEAVE YOUR CHILD (you know, the other link to your DNA) BEHIND. lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ashantimr/ ashantimr

    I don’t understand how people get blessed with having a child(ren) and do the meanest s**t. hope they rot in hell

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/baldy29/ baldy29

    Ha ! What is wrong with us. We black people need to use our god given brains.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MrWantSomeNewBooty/ MrWantSomeNewBooty

    Now that is a funny story…. I don’t care who you are. It would even be funnier if it wasn’t so sad. Even if you have intent to pull off a robbery, why would you take your young child along with you. What is this, take your kid to the crime you are about to commit day?

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jaycee102c/ jaycee102c

    there is the ignorance of people in the city of philadelphia……and this is one of the main reasons why I hate the city of philly…..on top of that many young people don’t know how to teach their kid right from wrong especially in the philly area, including radnor, wayne, norristown, allentown, downingtown, ambler, warminster, cheltenham…..why in the f**k would you take your child with you when you’re about to commit a crime……that shows that the entire city of philly and the metropolitan area are really stupid

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Blue_Thunder2/ Blue_Thunder2

    Damm, I thought I was dumb for locking my keys in the car, but this bammas take the cake!!! What, did you think the little boy could run a 4.2 40 like Chris Johnson or something? Hil-lar-i-ussssss

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/divamichachic/ divamichachic

    WTF!!!!!!!??????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/raymondowens/ raymondowens

    jaycee102c:”why would you take your child with you when you’re about to commit a crime?”-why comit his crime in the first, with or without a child in tow. the kid now will go to foster care because both parents are going to prison. i guess foster care is a blessing in disuise in this case. these two people are nuts.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MrGoHarder/ MrGoHarder

    How tragic, I feel sorry for lil man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/naynay_luvzyah/ naynay_luvzyah

    fuxxn dummyz! lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DMY19151/ DMY19151

    GOT DAMN NOODLES…..EMBARRASSING MY CITY OF PHILLY…LOL! THAT’S STRAIGHT DUMB!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AsileeDotCom/ AsileeDotCom

    -sigh-…black folks.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AsileeDotCom/ AsileeDotCom

    baldy29, your god didn’t give you brains, your stupid mother did…idiot.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/motortongue/ motortongue

    Well out of these two a*****es we all know that the women is going to get less time if any

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sabreenas1st/ sabreenas1st

    these parents are clearly dumb,dumb,dumb,i hope the child has family he could live with instead of being in the system!!! but if not i hope he’s treated a hell of alot better than what his parents did smh!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SexyMoneyMaker/ SexyMoneyMaker

    Yeah hopefully there is god parents or grandparents to care for him now cause the system is no joke, most teh kids in the system are subjected to alot of what hey went through out the system at some point. They had to be high on more than something by doing this, these things traumatize kids for the rest of their lives, lets just hope he does’nt turn out like his parents.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    yet people blame and speak down to and about the youth, but in actuality the focus is on the wrong people. These parents are something else

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hot_az_blk_male/ hot_az_blk_male

    During a recession/depression, which we r in now ppl get desparate. By definition a recession systematically occurs when unemployment is 20%+(media says 10% not to induce panic and doesnt take into acct ppl unemployed after 3 mths of not finding a job) suicide rates got to 9%+(which it is at now) banks buy up other banks, land, businesses and foreclosed homes, very high foodstamps and other unemployment claims, banks hardly lending thus shrinkin the amount of money circulation. So with that said we r in desparate times and humans like all animals have “survival instincts” so let us fortunate ones that have a roof over our heads and holding down a job be very thankful and count our blessing… So in your quite moment ask yourself what would you do if u lost your job, then your car, then home, family that can help u lost their jobs, u cant find a next job cus u need an address and u are hungry??? Put yourself in the state of mind of someone in that position and see how “logical and smart” you will be….

    if you care to do some research check out what happen during the last recession/depression back in the 1920s and 30s and u will see that a parent walkin in jewelry store and robbin it and leaving the kid behind might not be that “dumb dumb dumb” and not suprising during a depression. If you look at it from a another angle, in jail u r not homeless and they feed ya(50K/year is spent on an inmate), in foster care cps is well funded so the kid will have food, shelter, clothes and alot of counsellors… I am not condoning what happened but in a depression the middleclass and lower class suffer to the point of desparation and the wealthy gets extrememly and unimaginably wealthy.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Frenzy_Hunter/ Frenzy_Hunter

    Told you Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” policy wouldn’t work. :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Handsford/ Handsford

    why will we black people wouldn’t learn to do something postive? if u kno u are not ready yet for a baby pls don’t bring him or her in this world. why will this poor child live without his parent what a disgrace. i kno they were trying to make end means for their family but that was the dummiest thing i have ever see anyone done.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sexyredremy/ Sexyredremy

    Damnn son got a f**ked up mother and father

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DARKMYSTIC1/ DARKMYSTIC1

    Oh yall two dumb black dummy and hide, thought yall ass were in the clear, okay let me ride out on you 2 jackal’s. My black people dumb ass hell rob your own dam neighborhood,then leave your 4 year old kid behind, it ain’t that much money on this side of the globe or the other side either too make me leave my small little one flesh and blood behind. I know you wanted him away from danger of you all maybe getting killed in the attempt, but the whole moral code of the deal it is totally sick, you feel me. When ever you two get yall gonna need too see a dam psychologist i know times are hard / but hell mop floors or wash cars anything besides putting your kids in danger, yall black ass get out of this the judge gonna make yall black ass work like slaves regaining your moral code back haha think better next time daammm!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    My mother did the same thing to me…actually it was on more than one occassion . The least they could of done is leave him with some family. Now he will prob be stuck in fostercare the rest of his life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/muiscton/ muiscton

    Good now the child can be raised in a decent home hopefully…what idiots

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Amburrburr/ Amburrburr

    idk where to began!!! that it is sad, now i hope that kid has a wonderful family that getsa him and raise him! they dont deseve to have a child!!!! they need to be locked up, and throw the key away, not bc the stole the rings….but how do u leave ur child, 4 yr old child at that in a store just for money and with people that could have down anything! ughrr ppl make me sick!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doing_me74/ doing_me74

    that was a funny story

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DRACATTACK/ DRACATTACK

    Wow!! I failed to find the “humor” in this story but it seems as thought some has. What is so funny about being so damn stupid, irresponsible, & severely narrow-minded to one has to include an innocent child as part of their dumb-azzed decision to “break the law?!?” Do what’chu do but leave the kid(s) out, a’ight!! Geez!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ZombieBarbie/ ZombieBarbie

    yeah I didnt find humor in it either do you know how aweful that woould be if you where the child but then one more child without parents and one less child with horrible parents this is a lose los situation

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lovelyldylv6/ lovelyldylv6

    Benson and Stubbs face attempted murder, conspiracy, robbery, theft and numerous other charges. Looks like they have been conspiring in crime for awhile. This a shameful and embarrassing story has nothing to do with the recession. If they had got off they lazy behinds and got jobs this would not have happen. Instead they choose to stoop low and turn to crime involving the child with a dumb decision to run off and leave the child behind at the scene of the crime. I know the recession are bad for some, But this is no excuse for parents to involve a small four year old child in crime leave the child out of crime he’s innocent. These the worst kind of parents a child can have. I feel for this poor little fellow brought into this world by dumb worthless for nothing parents.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TiredMan/ TiredMan

    Just goes to show how f**ked people are…you need a license to drive a automobile, install electricity, or even to cut hair, but anyone can have a child. Hell, He looks like DMX!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsLady859/ MsLady859

    WHY ARE PEOPLE SAYIN “WE BLACK PEOPLE NEED TO DO BETTER” OR “WE BLACK PEOPLE” PERIOD. I DON’T KNOW THESE FOOLS. THIS STORY HAS NOTHIN TO DO WITH RACE THEY JUST SORRY PEOPLE. THEY ARE BAD PARENTS AND BAD CRIMINALS. I HOPE THAT BABY GETS PUT IN A GOOD HOME.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MasterUri/ MasterUri

    Both need a public wipping

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ms_Wrightt/ Ms_Wrightt

    I agree, people should be required to obtain a license BEFORE having children.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/little_big_mann/ little_big_mann

    Look at his little stupid asss grinning in that picture. If i was the parents i would beat the hell out of him when i got out of prison. Acting like he dont know what the hell “RUN!” means!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tigga_069/ Tigga_069

    DUMB ASSES, how you take a kid on a jewl hist. Those two made most dumbiest robbers ever.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tony_da_ram/ tony_da_ram

    LMAO @lil big mann

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Azrael3/ Azrael3

    This happened before.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Creola1977/ Creola1977

    smh…this is not funny at all…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pocahontas_/ Pocahontas_

    At least he won’t havae to see those theiving parents of his again. It’s a shame there are so many people who don’t even care about their kids in the least bit.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/under_construction09/ under_construction09

    Well, on the bright side that is one more child away from bad parents. To those of you saying WE black, please stop. I am not that way and I don’t know anyone who is. I’m sorry I don’t buy the doing the best for your family in a recession argument. There are programs that help people especially those that have children. For some of those programs yes you have to be drug tested, you have to put in so many volunteer or class hours, but I’m thinking that would have been better than losing your child forever, which I hope they have done. Prayfully he’ll be place in a great foster home and adopted quickly. He looks like a cutie. I’ll take him and give him proper southern raising lol. I’ve got two boys he’d be right at home with.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sima430/ sima430

    This story is sad, not funny at all!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    Obviously the child was brought along to prevent them being shot at or something. The story has a ring of familiarity. Although I have a mental image of it being a white couple…… I’m sure there have been such incidents.

    Mindless idiocy is no where near bound by race…

    LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/taurus216/ taurus216

    lmao ha ha idiots

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Asia_Lady/ Asia_Lady

    I feel bad for the child.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/truthserumX/ truthserumX

    Some people are dumb. Bottom-line. I think its blessing in disguise, the child needed to be removed from these people anyway.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DARKMYSTIC1/ DARKMYSTIC1

    STOP SAYING THAT HE WANT SEE THEM NO MORE!!! HE NEED’S TOO SEE HIS DAM MOTHER AGAIN NO MATTER AS LONG AS SHE IS ALIVE, HE’S GOTTA GO BACK TOO HIS MOTHER ONE DAY SOON.HIS FARTHER IS ANOTHER STORY BUT HIS MOTHER, WAS ONLY DOMINATED BY HER MAN TOO BE A HELPER AND SERVANT THAT’S ALL. I DO NOT CONDONE THIS BULL CRAP BUT, DO NOT STRIP HIM FROM HIS DAM MOTHER’S LOVE. HE’S DAM FOUR YEARS OLD HE ONLY HAVE 6 YEARS OF GROOMING LEFT, FROM 3 YRS OLD TOO 6 YRS TOO 10 THAT’S IT HE OR SHE HAS ALREADY BEEN GROOMED TIL THE MIND’S CUT OFF POINT. IF HE DON’T SEE HER HE’S GOING ONLY REPEAT WHAT THE LONELINESS DONE TOO HIM WITH TRUE LOVE FROM HIS, MOM WHO’S ONLY HUMAN WHO DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE.SHE’S ONLY DAM HUMAN, ENRON, 911, S&NL SCANDAL ALL CRIMES CREATED BY HUMANS WHO KNEW BETTER BUT SURELY GOT ANOTHER CHANCE YOU FEEL ME LATER BLACK NAZI’S..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DARKMYSTIC1/ DARKMYSTIC1

    PRISON ONLY MAKE PEOPLE UN EDUCATED THEN THEY CAME OUT, I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT DAM COLLEGE COURSES EITHER, I AM TALKING ABOUT HEALING CLASSES.INNER BEING HELP ALL THE STUDYING IN THE WORLD NOT GONNA SAVE A WOUNDED SOUL YOU FEEL ME , SOME BOUNCE BACK ON THERE ON AND MOST DON’T THE SAME OLD REVOLVING DOOR FROM THE 60′S TO 2000′S NOTHING NO HEALING AND CARING ALL PRISONER’S ARE NOT DOG’S AND ANIMALS GOOD DAY.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DARKMYSTIC1/ DARKMYSTIC1

    HIS DAD NEED’S NURTURING TOO. ALL MALE KIDS NEED THEIR MAN FIGURES IN THERE LIFE.DAD GONNA NEED SPECIAL HELP LIKE KNOWING HE’S A MAN NOT A BOY.RETURNING A MAN BACK INTO SOCIETY MAKING A BOY’S WAGE LEARNING BOY’S DIALECT AND BEING SLAVED LIKE A BOY IS NOT A MAN. THANK YOU.A MAN NEED TO GROW AN REPENT FROM HIS ILL’S INSIDE HIM,DISEASE OF CRIME,SUFFERING BRING GREED,GREED BRING CRIME, CRIME BREED’S CORRUPTION .. GOOD DAY

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigapplefashions/ bigapplefashions

    IGNORANCE IS BLISS…”G

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mahogani_songbird/ mahogani_songbird

    naaaa forget that his dad needs nurturing . there is no excuse for what these two GROWN a…. people did. it was just ignorance and once again we as a culture look ignorant again! mannnnn come on we gotta do better folks!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mukeye/ mukeye

    Dumb and Dumber.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hellokitty111/ Hellokitty111

    What a shame, that poor child. Obviously they didn’t care enough about them and only thought of themselves when escaping, makes me wonder what they do if their place caught on fire.

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